Description

This application reveals all iridium flares and satelittes (including international space station and amateur radio satellites) passing by at your location. An auto-adjusting compass pointing in the direction of the satellite or flare helps you tracing the object.Notifications can be enabled to warn you whenever a satellite of interest passes by.

The actual data is taken from www.heavens-above.com. They did a great job so check out their website too.This is NOT the official www.heavens-above.com Android application although the name may suggest this.

Tags: satellite tracker, ISS, satellite spotting

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4.2

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Joe Carrigan

Formerly the best, now, not so much. This app was great. Now the compass display useless. That's important because it's the best display for finding the satellite in the sky. The compass has no direction information on it, there is a large unexplained square in it, the maximum altitude markers appear OFF the paths, and all the paths of the satellites are lines (they use to be accurate curves). Use the Heavens Above app instead of this one.

Brandon Coppernoll

Notification always stop after a while The automatic pass notifications work for a few days. After that they stop working altogether. This has been an ongoing issue for years. Fix this and it would be 5 stars.

Paul Furniss

Nah. Far to complicated and isn't showing sats that I know are going over. Keeps saying your location isn't configured yet even though I keep pressing the button to set location. ISS and Iridium are going over in 2 hours but this thing isn't showing anything for 4hrs. Ads all over the place. This thing is a real mess.

Tony Butler

Use it to track the ISS It used to be excellent but now says location is not set and keeps crashing. Unusable until fixed!

Andy Staniford

Broke on latest update (Galaxy S4) Great app usually but broken in latest update. Widget vanished and notifications not working.

Karicat Watts

I can't judge this app I give it 3 stars because it looks like a lot of thought and work went into it. I lack the knowledge required to understand how to use it.

User reviews

Joe Carrigan December 2, 2015

Formerly the best, now, not so much. This app was great. Now the compass display useless. That's important because it's the best display for finding the satellite in the sky. The compass has no direction information on it, there is a large unexplained square in it, the maximum altitude markers appear OFF the paths, and all the paths of the satellites are lines (they use to be accurate curves). Use the Heavens Above app instead of this one.

Notification always stop after a while The automatic pass notifications work for a few days. After that they stop working altogether. This has been an ongoing issue for years. Fix this and it would be 5 stars.

Nah. Far to complicated and isn't showing sats that I know are going over. Keeps saying your location isn't configured yet even though I keep pressing the button to set location. ISS and Iridium are going over in 2 hours but this thing isn't showing anything for 4hrs. Ads all over the place. This thing is a real mess.

Best of It's Kind As a free app, this works great. It does not have the augmented reality style of tracking, but the preferable compass based method. I suppose it is personal preference, but this style of tracking allows a better sense of what you can see, where you can see it, and when. It would be cool to see the navigation buttons dim or hide during "night mode", as currently, they stay lit up. (Nexus 5, 4.4.4)

Overall a good app! I'm using this app for quite a long time now. Time to time it had some bugs and they got fixed. At the moment refresh button is not working on my nexus 4. Also if developers of this app can add Augmented reality into it, it would be awesome!

Great for finding satellites but the compass does not work at all, never points towards the event location it just spins opposite the direction I turn. Notifications not working for me either unless I have the app running.